Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Flue gas treatment'

CJP Solutions och Waste Handling and Management (WHAM) är två företag i Melbourne, Australien, som utvecklar en process för återvinning av bioslam från Melbourne Waters reningsverk. Slammet är förorenat med metaller från industriellt avloppsvatten som har behandlats tillsammans med det kommunala avloppsvattnet. Företagen sökte en hållbar biologisk process inkluderande alger för att rena och fånga in rökgaser från pyrolisering och förbränning av det förorenade slammet. I det här examensarbetet har en teknisk lösning utformats, tillverkats och experimentellt prövats på plats under tjugo veckor i Melbourne, med mål att: mäta gas- och vattenreningsprestanda. Efter åtta veckors inledande litteraturstudie omfattande koldioxidinfångst samt algbiologi med industriell tillämpning fattades beslut om att i första hand använda mikroalgen Chlorella vulgaris, för dess robusta egenskaper samt potential för snabb tillväxt. Utöver Chlorella v. odlades en blandning lokala algkulturer tillsammans med Chlorella v. fram, och prövades parallellt vid de efterföljande experimenten. Experimenten utfördes under tre veckor vid energiföretaget AGLs biogasdrivna kraftvärmeverk, på Melbourne Waters Western Treatment Plant. I experimentet leddes orenade rökgaser genom ett system för kylning, filtrering och kompression, till algodlingarna. Algodlingarna var utformade i två separata system, det ena bestående av sju vertikala 25 liters plastkolonner, det andra av en 250 liters bassängodling. Systemen blandades genom luft- och rökgasinsprutning, samt genom mekaniserad omrörning. Algerna odlades i delvis renat avloppsvatten. Val av tekniska lösningar baserades på låga omkostnader, enkel konstruktion, komponenternas tillgänglighet, samt en tre veckors tidsfrist till att utforma och tillverka systemen.
CJP Solutions in collaboration with Waste Handling and Management (WHAM), two companies based in Melbourne, Australia, are currently developing a process to treat and recycle biosolids left over from the wastewater treatment process at Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant. The biosolids are contaminated with heavy metals from industrial wastewater, being treated together with municipal wastewater. The companies are looking for a sustainable solution for sequestering flue gases from pyrolysis of the biosolids, into an algal biomass. In this Master Thesis project, a technical solution has been designed, constructed and tested on site over the course of twenty weeks in Melbourne, the goal being to determine gas and water cleanup performance. After eight weeks of initial literature review covering CO 2-sequestration and industrial applications of algae cultivation, the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris was chosen as the main strain to be used, due to it being robust and having a high growth rate. In addition to the Chlorella v. culture, a mix consisting of local algae cultures together with Chlorella v. was also cultivated throughout the experiments. The experiments were carried out during three weeks at AGL’s biogas power plant, at the Western Treatment Plant. Untreated exhaust gas was led through a system of cooling, filtration, and compression, into the two separate algal culture systems. One consisted of seven 25 litre plastic column reactors, the other of a 250 litre pond reactor. The systems were mixed through air bubbling, exhaust gas inlet, as well as by a mechanical stirrer in the pond reactor. The algae were grown in partially treated wastewater. Factors determining the system design included simplicity in construction, use of cheap, available materials, as well as a three week design and construction deadline.
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Master of Science
Department of Civil Engineering
Natalie Mladenov
In the United States approximately 37% of the 4 trillion kWh of electricity is generated annually by combusting coal (USEPA, 2013). The abundance of coal, ease of storage, and transportation makes it affordable at a global scale (Ghose, 2009). However, the flue gas produced by combusting coal affects human health and the environment (USEPA, 2013). To comply with federal regulations coal-fired power plants have been implementing sulfur dioxide scrubbing systems such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems (Alvarez-Ayuso et al., 2006). Although FGD systems have proven to reduce atmospheric emissions they create wastewater containing harmful pollutants. Constructed wetlands are increasingly being employed for the removal of these toxic trace elements from FGD wastewater. In this study the effectiveness of using a constructed wetland treatment system was explored as a possible remediation technology to treat FGD wastewater from a coal-fired power plant in Kansas. To simulate constructed wetlands, a continuous flow-through column experiment was conducted with undiluted FGD wastewater and surface sediment from a power plant in Kansas. To optimize the performance of a CWTS the following hypotheses were tested: 1) decreasing the flow rate improves the performance of the treatment wetlands due to an increase in reaction time, 2) the introduction of microbial cultures (inoculum) will increase the retention capacity of the columns since constructed wetlands improve water quality through biological process, 3) the introduction of a labile carbon source will improve the retention capacity of the columns since microorganisms require an electron donor to perform life functions such as cell maintenance and synthesis. Although the FGD wastewater collected possessed a negligible concentration of arsenic, the mobilization of arsenic has been observed in reducing sediments of wetland environments. Therefore, constructed wetlands may also represent an environment where the mobilization of arsenic is possible. This led us to test the following hypothesis: 4) Reducing environments will cause arsenic desorption and dissolution causing the mobilization of arsenic. As far as removal of the constituents of concern (arsenic, selenium, nitrate, and sulfate) in the column experiments, only sulfate removal increased as a result of decreasing the flow rate by half (1/2Q). In addition, sulfate-S exhibited greater removal as a result of adding organic carbon to the FGD solution when compared to the control (at 1/2Q). Moderate selenium removal was observed; over 60% of selenium in the influent was found to accumulate in the soil. By contrast, arsenic concentrations increased in the effluent of the 1/2Q columns, most likely by dissolution and release of sorbed arsenic. When compared to the control (at 1/2Q), arsenic dissolution decreased as a result of adding inoculum to the columns. Dissolved arsenic concentrations in the effluent of columns with FGD solution amended with organic carbon reached 168 mg/L. These results suggest that native Kansas soils placed in a constructed wetland configuration and amended with labile carbon do possess an environment where the mobilization of arsenic is possible.

Master of Science
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Stacy L. Hutchinson
Coal-fired generation accounts for 45% of the United States electricity and generates harmful emissions, such as sulfur dioxide. With the implementation of Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) systems, sulfur dioxide is removed as an air pollutant and becomes a water pollutant. Basic physical/chemical wastewater treatment can be used to treat FGD wastewater, but increased regulations of effluent water quality have created a need for better, more economical wastewater treatment systems, such as constructed wetlands. At Jeffrey Energy Center, north of St. Mary’s, KS, a pilot-scale constructed wetland treatment system (CWTS) was implemented to treat FGD wastewater before releasing the effluent into the Kansas River. The objectives of this study were to 1.) determine if a portable water quality meter could be used to assess water quality and track pollutant concentrations, 2.) develop a water balance of the CTWS, 3.) generate a water use coefficient for the CWTS, and 4.) create a mass balance on the pollutants of concern. Water quality measurements were taken with a HORIBA U-50 Series Multi Water Quality Checker and compared to analytical water tests provided by Continental Analytic Services, Inc. (CAS) (Salina, KS). The water balance was created by comparing inflows and outflows of data determined through flow meters and a Vantage Pro2™ weather station. Information from the on-site weather station was also used to compute the system water use coefficient. Water sampling was conducted from date to date at 10 locations within the CWTS. In general, there was little to no relationship between the HORIBA water quality measurements and the analytical water tests. Therefore, it was recommended that JEC continue to send water samples on a regular basis to an analytical testing laboratory to assess the CWTS function and track pollutants of concern. Because the water balance was conducted during system initiation, there was a great deal of fluctuation due to problems with the pumping system, issues with the upstream FGD treatment system, extreme weather events, and immature vegetation. This fluctuation resulted in the system having a non-steady state operation, which weakened the ability to calculate a system water use coefficient. However, during periods of strong system function, the water use coefficient was similar to previous studies with maximum water use being approximately equal to the reference evapotranspiration. The results of the mass balance indicated high removals mercury, selenium, and fluoride, but low removals of boron, manganese, chloride, and sulfate were exported from the CWTS.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the possibility to improve the separation of HCl and SO2 in the dry ue-gas treatment for boiler #3 at Fortum's thermal power plant in Hogdalen; by using a model predictive control instead of a PID controller to govern the slaked lime injection. To achieve this an ARMAX model was derived using MATLAB's System Identi cation Toolbox and measurements of the incoming and outgoing levels of HCl, SO2 and the speed of the injection motor. The ARMAX model was then converted to a state space model which will be used as the internal model for the MPC predictions. The cost function was a quadratic problem which included the error between the output and the set points, the change rate of the input and the inputs deviation from a default value. The MPC uses both a feedforward and a feedback loop to estimate the error over the prediction horizon. The controller also utilizes the ability to set constraints and tuning of the cost function weights. In conclusion, the thesis shows that a MPC controlled lime injection is possible and would o er some unique possibilities such as: natural constraints handling, more intuitive live tuning for the operator and prioritized input control. However the dry scrubber still struggles to suppress high amounts of incoming SO2 and since the project lacked a measuring unit for incoming HCl concentration the results showing an improvements in pollution separation was not conclusive.
Under 2011 utförde Fortum en ombyggnation av Panna 3 för att oka energiproduktionen vid Högdalens värmeverk. Detta ledde till ett okat rökgasflöde genom pannans rökgasrening och Fortum har sedan ombyggnationen noterat en försämrad separation av väteklorid (HCl) och svaveldioxid (SO2) i den torra rökgasreningen. I den torra rökgasreningen (torr skrubber) tillsatts släckt kalk till rökgaskanalen som sedan reagerar med HCl och SO2. Reaktionen mellan kalk och HCl/SO2 skapar ett fast ämne som kan filtreras med ett filter. Detta projekt har undersökt möjligheten att förbättra separationen av HCl och SO2 i den torr skrubbern genom att använda en prediktive regulator för att styra kalkinmatningen istället för en PID regulator. Projektet inleddes med att skapa en matematisk modell som beskriver sambandet mellan inkommande HCl, SO2 och kalk och utgående HCl och SO2. För att åstadkomma detta så mättes indata och utdata för att sedan användas i MATLAB's System Identification Toolbox som sedan skapade en ARMAX (Autoregressive Moving Average Extra signal) modell. Denna modell konverterades sedan till en tillståndsmodell för att bättre passa ändamålet som en intern modell i MPC regulatorn. Nästa steg var att sätta ihop själva regulatorn som styr hastigheten av de motorer som matar in kalk i rökgaskanalen i MATLAB Simulink. Denna regulator har till uppgift att hitta den optimala förändringen av motorhastigheten som gör så att utsignalen håller sig på en önskad referensnivå. Detta utförs genom att ställa upp en så kallad kostnadsfunktion som associerar en fiktiv kostnad till att avvika från referensnivån, att föreslå en stor ändring av motorhastigheten eller att avvika från en önskad motorhastighet. Kostnadsfunktionen ar formulerad som kvadratisk problem som MPC regulatorn försöker lösa för att hitta den optimala insignalen till systemet. Med andra ord så försöker regulatorn att hitta den minsta andringen av motorhastigheten som bidrar till den minsta avvikelsen från önskad motorhastighet och minsta avvikelsen mellan utsignal och referensnivå _a. Den framtagna regulatorn använder sig av både framkoppling och återkoppling för att estimera summan av de nuvarande och förväntade avvikelsen mellan utsignal och referensnivå. Regulatorn använder sig också av restriktioner som begränsar hastigheten på motorn och hur snabbt regulatorn kan andra den tidigare motorhastigheten. Detta betyder att regulatorn kommer endast att föreslå en förändring av hastigheten som ligger inom systemets restriktioner. Denna rapport kommer i jämförelsesyfte också att presentera en simulation av den existerande PID regulatorn. Resultaten från denna rapport kommer att innehålla den framtagna tillståndsmodellen, en skiss over den implementerade MPC regulatorn, den kod som utför själva optimeringen samt diagram från simuleringar av MPC och PID regulatorerna. I dessa resultat visade det sig att MPC regulatorn lyckas _åstadkomma marginellt bättre kontroll over utgående SO2 samt en mer exakt kontroll av utgående HCl. Det skall dock noteras att dessa resultat ar baserade på simuleringar och kan komma att andras i en verklig implementation. Aven med små förbättringar av utsläppsvärdena så erbjuder MPC regulatorn några intressanta möjligheter. En MPC regulator kan hantera restriktioner i processen mycket mer naturligt an PID regulatorn. Den kan också justeras under drift av operatören samt prioriterat val av kontrollsignal. Med prioriterat val av kontrollsignal menas att det ar möjligt att förknippa olika kostnader till era olika kontrollsignaler i kostnadsfunktionen. Detta skulle medföra att regulatorn prioriterar en andringar av den kontrollsignal som medför den minsta kostnaden under rådande omständigheter.

Waste management represents an important issue in our society and Waste-to-Energy incineration plants have been playing a significant role in the last decades, showing an increased importance in Europe. One of the main issues posed by waste combustion is the generation of air contaminants. Particular concern is present about acid gases, mainly hydrogen chloride and sulfur oxides, due to their potential impact on the environment and on human health. Therefore, in the present study the main available technological options for flue gas treatment were analyzed, focusing on dry treatment systems, which are increasingly applied in Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) incinerators. An operational model was proposed to describe and optimize acid gas removal process. It was applied to an existing MSW incineration plant, where acid gases are neutralized in a two-stage dry treatment system. This process is based on the injection of powdered calcium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate in reactors followed by fabric filters. HCl and SO2 conversions were expressed as a function of reactants flow rates, calculating model parameters from literature and plant data. The implementation in a software for process simulation allowed the identification of optimal operating conditions, taking into account the reactant feed rates, the amount of solid products and the recycle of the sorbent. Alternative configurations of the reference plant were also assessed. The applicability of the operational model was extended developing also a fundamental approach to the issue. A predictive model was developed, describing mass transfer and kinetic phenomena governing the acid gas neutralization with solid sorbents. The rate controlling steps were identified through the reproduction of literature data, allowing the description of acid gas removal in the case study analyzed. A laboratory device was also designed and started up to assess the required model parameters.

Syftet med undersökningen var att klargöra om en rökgaskondensor är en bra investering för Nybro Energi AB. Saxlund Bioenergy AB kontaktades för sammanställning av offert. Med hjälp av parametrar från Nybro Energi AB och offerten från Saxlund Bioenergy AB, gjordes beräkningar för att avgöra om en investering är lönsam. Resultatet av undersökningen visade att en investering av sådant slag som behandlats i detta arbete var intjänad efter mindre än sju år i drift och effekten som är möjlig att utvinna uppgår till 2,8 MW, förutsatt att panneffekten utgjordes av minst 15 MW.  Slutsatserna var att investeringen inte var betald efter sju år med underlag av att kostnader som utgjordes av eventuell ombyggnation inte var behandlade i undersökningen, detta innebar dock inte att en investering ärr olönsam då dessa kostnader uppskattades som små i förhållande till den totala besparingen efter att den ekonomiska livslängden på 15 år har löpt ut.
The purpose of this investigation was to clarify whether a flue gas condenser was a good investment for Nybro Energi AB. Saxlund Bioenergy AB was contacted for the compilation of quotation. Using parameters from Nybro Energi AB and the quote from Saxlund Bioenergy AB, calculations were made to determine whether an investment was suitable. The results of the study showed that the investment of the kind dealt with in this work was earned after less than seven years of operation, and the output that was possible to recover amounted to 2,8 MW, provided that the boiler output consisted of at least 15 MW. The conclusions were that the investment was not paid after seven years because of the costs consisted of possible reconstructions were not considered in the survey, this does not mean that an investment was unprofitable since these costs were estimated as small relative to the total savings after the economic life of 15 years, has expired.

Modern societies produce large quantities of municipal solid waste (MSW), which is commonly disposed of by incineration. This has several advantages: it reduces the waste’s volume and sterilizes it while also enabling energy recovery. However, MSW incineration has some notable disadvantages, the most widely debated of which is probably the production and release of persistent organic pollutants (POP) such as polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF), dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD), biphenyls (PCB) and naphthalenes (PCN). Of the 210 PCDF and PCDD congeners, 17 are toxic, with hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic properties. Twelve of the 209 PCB congeners and at least 2 of the 75 PCN also exhibit such properties. These POP form in the post-combustion zones of MSW incineration plants and are removed from the flue gas using filtering devices that trap them in the fly ash This thesis concerns the formation and degradation of POP in processes related to MSW incineration. The first paper describes a case study in which PCDD were forming in filters designed to remove them from flue gases, causing emission-related issues in a full-scale MSW incineration plant. It was shown that the PCDD formation was probably due to chlorophenol condensation on the filters’ surfaces. The second paper describes the validation of a cooling probe designed to prevent POP formation during high temperature (>450 °C) flue gas sampling. The results obtained also confirmed that PCDF and PCDD formation takes place at temperatures below 600 °C. In the third paper, three different fly ashes were subjected to thermal treatment under an inert atmosphere in a rotary kiln and in sealed ampoules at 400 °C. The concentrations, degrees of chlorination and congener profiles of the POP in the treated ashes and emitted gases were compared to those for the untreated ashes. The trends observed for PCDF mirrored those for PCN, while the trends for PCDD closely resembled those for PCB. The PCDF congener profiles of the kiln ash were similar regardless of the initial ash composition, suggesting that the mechanisms of PCDF formation were similar in all cases. The fourth paper describes the surface characterization of the three fly ashes studied in paper three by SEM, EDX, XPS and XRD. In addition, the thermal desorption and subsequent degradation of POP from the ashes was studied at temperatures of 300-900 °C. The composition of the gases released as the temperature increased differed between the ashes and depended on their composition. Doping experiments using isotopically labelled PCDF and PCDD suggests that PCDD desorbed at lower temperatures than PCDF. This thesis examines several problems relating to POP formation during MSW incineration, from sampling to the ultimate fate of incineration residues. The results obtained illustrate the wide range of processes that contribute to thermal POP formation and degradation during and after MSW incineration.
Förbränning av hushållssopor är en vanlig metod för att hantera ett växande avfallsproblem. Metoden har flera fördelar, såsom minskning av volym och vikt, sterilisering och energiåtervinning. Sopförbränning har dock vissa nackdelar och det mest debatterade är sannolikt utsläpp av persistenta organiska föroreningar (POPs) som polyklorerad dibensofuran (PCDF), dibenso-p-dioxin (PCDD), bifenyl (PCB) och naftalen (PCN). Det finns totalt 210 PCDF- och PCDD- kongener, med mellan ett till åtta klor på kolskelettet, varav 17 är giftiga med hormonstörande och cancerframkallande egenskaper. Även tolv av totalt 209 PCB-kongener samt minst två av totalt 75 PCN-kongener uppvisar liknande egenskaper. Dessa klorerade organiska föroreningar bildas då rökgaserna kyls ner i sopförbränningsanläggningarna och avlägsnas från rökgaserna med hjälp av filter och hamnar i flygaskan. Denna avhandling handlar om bildning och nedbrytning av POPs i sopförbränningsrelaterade processer.   Den första artikeln är en fallstudie där PCDD bildas i filtren i en fullskalig sopförbränningsanläggning. Bildningen ledde till förhöjda halter organiska föroreningar i rökgaserna, vilket ledde till ökade utsläpp. Den funna bildningsvägen för PCDD i filtren befanns sannolikt bero på kondensation av klorfenoler på filterytorna. Den andra artikeln är en valideringsstudie av en kylprob avsedd att användas vid rökgasprovtagning vid hög temperatur (> 450 °C) för att undvika bildning av POPs under provtagningen. Studien bekräftade att majoriteten av PCDF- och PCDD- bildning i rökgaser från sopförbränning sker vid temperaturer under 600 °C. I den tredje artikeln berättas om behandling av tre olika flygaskor från olika sopförbränningsanläggningar. Askorna behandlades vid 400 °C i inert atmosfär i både en roterugn och i förseglade ampuller. De resulterande koncentrationerna, kloreringsgraderna och kongenprofilerna av de organiska föroreningarna jämfördes. Likheter hittades mellan PCDF och PCN, medan PCDD och PCB betedde sig på ett annat sätt. Studien fann också att PCDF kongenprofiler i aska som behandlats i roterugnen liknade varandra, oberoende av askornas sammansättning, vilket tyder på en liknande bildningsväg. För den fjärde artikeln, genomfördes ytkarakterisering (SEM, EDX, XPS och XRD) på de tre flygaskorna från artikel tre som sedan hettades upp från 30 °C till 900 °C i vacuum. Det som frigjordes på grund av uppvärmningen samt nedbrytningsprodukter från askorna studerades med hjälp av masspektrometri och infraröd spektroskopi. Studien fann att de gaser som frigjordes när temperaturen ökade skilde mellan askorna, beroende på deras sammansättning. Studien fann också att när aska dopad med isotopmärkt PCDF och PCDD utsattes för samma behandling, frigjordes PCDD vid lägre temperatur än PCDF. Denna avhandling berör flera aspekter av problematiken kring klorerade organiska föroreningar som bildas vid sopförbränning, från provtagning till hur man ska hantera flygaskan. Avhandlingen belyser även olika typer av bildning och nedbrytning av POPs i varma processer kopplade till sopförbränning.

Among all the flue gas components produced in waste-to-energy plants, acid airborne pollutants such as SO2 and HCl have the most rigorous emission standards provided by the European Parliament. Their removal is thus a key step of the flue gas treatment which is mainly achieved with the Dry Treatment Systems (DTS), technologies based on the direct injection of dry solid sorbents which is capable to subtract the acid from the gas stream with several important advantages and high removal efficiencies. However, the substantial lack of a deeper industrial knowledge makes difficult to determine accurately an optimal operating zone which should be required for the design and operation of these systems. The aim of this study has been therefore the exploration, while basing on an essential engineering expertise, of some of the possible solutions which the application of multivariate statistical methods on process data obtained from real plants can give in order to identify all those phenomena which rule dry treatment systems. In particular, a key task of this work has been the seeking for a general procedure which can be possibly applied for the characterization of any type of DTS system, regardless of the specific duty range or design configuration. This required to overcome the simple mechanical application of the available techniques and made necessary to tailor and even redefine some of the available standard procedures in order to guarantee specific and objective results for the studied case. Specifically, in this so called chemometric analysis, after a pre-treatment and quality assessment, the process data obtained from a real working plant was analyzed with basic and advanced techniques in order to characterize the relations among all the available variables. Then, starting from the results of the data analysis, a linear model has been produced in order to be employed to predict with a certain grade of accuracy the operating conditions of the system.

År 2000 startades ett samarbete mellan Wuhan i Kina och Borlänge Energi i Sverige. De två parterna bestämde år 2005 tillsammans med IVL, Svenska Miljöinstitutet, att samarbeta inom följande områden; hållbar energiproduktion, hållbar avfallsproduktion samt grundandet av ett miljöteknikcentrum i Wuhan. Miljöteknikcentrumet är till för att vara en plattform för svensk miljöteknik och expertis. Som ett första steg inför grundandet av ett miljöteknikcentrum gjordes en undersökning för att se inom vilka sektorer svensk miljöteknik kan etableras.

Undersökningen var inriktat på industriell avloppsvattenrening i Wuhan; bedömning av vilka typer av industrier/företag som har problem med avloppsvattenreningen och i vilken utsträckning det finns svenska tekniklösningar på problemen. Undersökningen genomfördes genom intervjuer med myndigheter och en del utvalda företag. Det var svårt att få fram information om vilka företag som inte följer de kinesiska gränsvärdena, varför en del besök gjordes till företag som lever upp till gränsvärdena. På grund av detta togs även andra problem med miljön som företagen hade upp. Några kommunala reningsverk besöktes och intervjuades också för att få en bättre bild av den kommunala vattenreningssituationen. En generell beskrivning av Wuhans miljösituation utfördes också samt en beskrivning av de viktigaste miljömyndigheterna och institutionerna.

Wuhans största utmaning är att konstruera reningsverk till alla de 3.5 miljoner som fortfarande släpper sitt avloppsvatten rätt ut till sjöar och floder, snarare än att ytterligare rena det industriella avloppsvattnet. Behandlingsgraden av det industriella avloppsvattnet har nått 97 % medan behandlingsgraden av det kommunala avloppsvattnet endast nått 70 %.

Besök vid de utvalda företagen och kommunala reningsverk ledde till slutsatsen att svensk teknik och expertis kan införas i följande områden: hantering av slam från reningsverk, byggandet av förbränningsanläggningar för sopor och hur man löser problemet med att rena luften från gaser som SO2 och dioxiner. De flesta företagen kunde följa de kinesiska gränsvärdena för utsläpp av avloppsvatten men mycket kan göras för att förbättra företagens tekniker ytterligare. Detta utförs dock nästan aldrig eftersom det är en ekonomisk fråga. Det är möjligt för Wuhan att sätta lokala, hårdare gränsvärlden för att tvinga företagen att förbättra sina reningstekniker ytterligare.

In 2000 a co-operation between Wuhan in China and Borlänge Energi in Sweden started. The two parts decided in 2005 together with IVL, the Swedish Research Institute, to co-operate in the fields of sustainable energy production, sustainable waste management and the establishment of an Environmental Technology Centre, supplying Swedish environmental expertise to companies in Wuhan. As a first step for the establishment of an Environmental Technology Centre in Wuhan, an investigation was made to find out in which sectors Swedish environmental technology could be established.

The investigation took aim at observing the industrial wastewater treatment in Wuhan and to see which types of companies that have problems with the wastewater treatment and if there existed Swedish technology that could solve the problems. The investigation was performed through interviews with the authorities and some selected companies. It was difficult to get information about companies that did not comply with the National Chinese wastewater standards. This meant that some of the visits were made to companies that comply with the standards, also taking into consideration other problems with the environment that the companies might have. Visits were also paid to municipal wastewater treatment plants to get an overview over the municipal wastewater treatment situation. An overall survey of the environmental situation in Wuhan was also made and a presentation of the most important environmental departments and institutions is given.

The greatest challenge for Wuhan is to construct wastewater treatment plants for the around 3.5 million people that still discharge their wastewater directly to rivers and lakes, rather than to improve the industrial wastewater treatment further. The treatment rate of the industrial wastewater has reached 97%, but the municipal wastewater treatment rate has only reached 70%.

After the visits to the selected companies and municipal wastewater treatment plants the conclusion was made that Swedish technologies and expertise can be applied to the following areas; handling sludge from the wastewater treatment plants, construction of waste incineration plants and handling flue gas and dioxins. Most of the visited companies could follow the wastewater standards. Although much can be done to improve their technologies further, this is not done since it is too expensive. It is possible for Wuhan to apply stricter local wastewater treatment standards. This could be used as a tool to make companies invest more money in improvements of their technologies.

Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Agronomy
Ganga M. Hettiarachchi
Constructed wetland treatment systems (CWTSs) are an alternative adaptation for flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater purification. A series of laboratory-based soil column studies mimicking a pilot-scale CWTS was carried out to evaluate the performance of the treatment system in detail. The main objectives of studies were to (1) understand the transport characteristics, retention capacity and transformation of selenium and other FGD constituents in the CWTS, (2) evaluate the effectiveness of soil treatments and influent flow rate on the performance of the CWTS, and (3) develop a mechanistic understanding of the CWTS performance through monitoring interrelationships of selenium (Se), arsenic (As), iron (Fe), and sulfur (S). Ferrihydrite (1% w/w), and labile organic carbon (OC) were used as soil treatments. Different influent flow rates, X (1.42 mL/hour), 2X, or 1/2X were used depending on the objectives of each study. Deoxygenated 1:1 mixture of FGD: raw water was the influent. It was delivered to the saturated columns with an upward flow. Effluent samples were collected continuously, and analyzed for constituents of concern. End of these experiments, soil from sectioned columns were used for total elemental analysis, sequential extraction procedure (SEP) for Se, and synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy analyses. Results indicated a complete Se retention by the columns. Boron, and fluorine partially retained whereas sodium, sulfur, and chlorine retention was weak, agreeing with field observations. Some of the initially-retained Se (~ 4 to 5%) was mobilized by changing redox conditions in the soil. Selenium fed with the wastewater accumulated in the bottom 1/3 (inlet) of the soil columns and was mainly sequestrated as stable forms revealed by SEP. Bulk-, and micro-XANES analyses suggested the retention mechanism of Se from the FGD wastewater was via the transformation of Se into reduced/stable forms [Se(IV), organic Se, and Se(0)]. Under wetland conditions, native soil As was mobilized by reductive dissolution of As associated minerals. However, the ferrihydrite amendment suppressed the native soil As mobility. Micro-XRF mapping integrated with As, and Fe-XANES suggested that the mechanism of native soil As retention was the sequestration of released As with newly precipitated secondary Fe minerals. A long-term study carried out with X, 1/2X flow rates, and OC source indicated enhanced S retention by the slow flow rate (1/2X), most likely due to the time dependency of biogenic S reduction. Further, bulk S-, As-, and Fe-XANES revealed that long submergence period and the slow flow rate increased the formation of reduced and/or biogenic S, realgar-like, and greigite-like species. These observations indicated that modified flow rates could have a significant impact on the long-term trace element (such as As) sequestration in the CWTS. Our studies provide useful information to improve the performance, and longevity of a full-scale CWTS for FGD wastewaters.

Företaget Againity AB har planer på att driftsätta avfallsförbränningsanläggningar i områden av världen där avfallsförbränning inte är särskilt vanlig. Againity står därför inför utmaningen att rena rökgaserna till godkända nivåer. För att göra detta krävs först och främst en kartläggning över förbränningstekniker, föroreningsemissioner och de olika utsläppskrav som finns. Vidare utvärderas vilka rökgasreningstekniker som är bäst lämpade för avfallsförbränningsanläggningar i de områden som Againity vill vara verksamt i. Genom att förbränna avfall i en förbränningsanläggning finns förutsättningar att rent förbränningstekniskt minska utsläppen av föroreningar. I en eldstad där förbränningen sker i kontrollerade former kan en önskad temperatur uppnås med hjälp av optimal lufttillförsel. Med kombinationen av en temperatur kring 800 – 1100 ºC och en uppehållstid på minst 2 sekunder kan fullständig förbränning av bränslet uppnås och utsläppen av miljöbelastande ämnen kan reduceras kraftigt. Föroreningar har undersökts baserat på de lagstiftningar som finns för utsläppsbegränsningar. En av dessa är svaveldioxid, som bidrar till försurning av vatten och mark. En annan är dioxiner, som genom biomagnifikation är skadliga för människor och djur. För att uppnå maximal reduktion av föroreningar används kombinationer av olika rökgasreningstekniker. Stoftbundna partiklar kan avskiljas ur rökgaserna med hjälp av olika slags filter, medan sura gaser måste reagera med ett annat ämne för att kunna fångas upp eller avskiljas på annat sätt. Kväveoxider avskiljs inte på samma sätt som de tidigare nämnda föroreningarna, utan reduceras istället med en reaktant som bildar en harmlös gas. Tack vare att data finns angående avfallsfraktioner, har teoretiska halter av vissa ämnen i rökgaserna beräknats. Företaget Testos mätningar vid avfallsförbränningsanläggningar har använts för andra föroreningar. Efter jämförelse med utsläppskrav för olika regioner har rekommendationer av lämpliga röksgasreningstekniker presenterats. Dessa förslag på rökgasreningsanläggningar har tagits fram ur ett miljö- och ekonomiperspektiv. Vi har kommit fram till att fullständig förbränning är en grundläggande princip som verksamhetsutövare behöver lägga stort fokus på. Gemensamt för alla våra anläggningsförslag har varit det elektrostatiska filtret, som vi tycker bör implementeras vid alla förbränningsanläggningar. Vi rekommenderar också andra reningstekniker som skrubber och SNCR, men dessa metoder bör sättas i relation till den miljömässiga kravbild, de ekonomiska resurser som finns och infrastrukturens funktionalitet.
The company Againity AB has plans to apply waste incineration systems in regions where waste management is a major issue. To manage this Againity must take flue gas treatment in consideration. As flue gas treatment isn’t their area of expertise, a disquisition of combustion techniques, pollution and emission standards will be necessary. Henceforth can an evaluation of which flue gas treatment techniques that would be suitable for waste incineration plants in the regions where the plants are intended to be. By incinerate waste in an incineration plant there is good conditions to obtain a less polluted flue gas just by using good combustion techniques. In a plant where you can control the combustion, a certain desired temperature can be achieved by injecting the right amount of air. The combination of a temperature around 800 – 1100 °C and a residence time of at least two seconds, result in complete combustion of the waste and emissions of environmental pollutants will be reduced. Based on emission standards, certain pollutants have been evaluated. One of those pollutants is sulphur dioxide, which contribute to acidification of earth and water. Another relevant pollutant is dioxins, which is harmful for humans and animals due to its capability of biomagnification. To acquire as clean flue gas as possible several flue gas treatment techniques should be applied in combination. By using filters in general, dust and particles bound in dust can be separated from the flue gas. As for acidic gases, these must react with another substance first to be separated. Nitrogen oxides however cannot be separated from the flue gas as the recently mentioned pollutants can, they can only be reduced by reacting with a reducing agent to form harmless gases. Thanks to available data concerning waste fractions, theoretical values of some pollutants in flue gases has been calculated. Emission measurements at waste incineration plants made by the company Testo, has been used for other pollutants. Calculated and measured values has been compared to the emission standards of Vietnam and the European Union and depending on the outcome of the comparison, suggestions of flue-gas techniques has been presented. Different suggestions of flue-gas systems have been presented depending of economic resources and to what extent the emissions should be reduced. Our conclusion is that complete combustion is a fundamental factor that operators must focus on. Electrostatic precipitator is a flue-gas technique that all our suggestions have in common and is a technique that we strongly recommend. We also recommend other flue-gas techniques such as scrubber and SNCR, but these methods are not always necessary. Planning of advanced flue-gas treatment needs consideration of the environmental requirements, the economic resources available and the functionality of the infrastructure.

The aim of this thesis is the design of municipal waste incinerator using the generated steam for power generation and distribution of heat. At the beginning is engaged in development of waste issues and the current state of waste management. The next section describes the options of waste treatment and possible solutions to the current state of waste issues. The concept of waste incineration plants: For waste incineration is used line for burning 100,000 tons of municipal waste per year.Combustion takes place in a grate boiler. Its advantage is the versatility and flexibility to waste. Electricity generation is dealt with condensing turbine with controlled consumption. The flue gas cleaning is designed to semi-wet method. The final stage involves the calculation of the balance, the calculation of electric energyand basic economic evaluation.

The Stable high rate ammonia removal over nitrite (SHARON) at Nykvarnsverket in Linköping is a relatively new kind of biological treatment. Fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O) has not been fully mapped at Nykvarnsverket and additional efforts are needed for increased knowledge about possible emissions. The primary goals of the study were to measure and compare fluxes of N2O in the SHARON and to do a general greenhouse gas (GHG) flux comparison to those of the Biological treatment, the Chemical treatment and the Second denitrification at Nykvarnsverket. Secondary goals were to evaluate the use of two gas sensors, a SiC-FET sensor for N2O emissions, a CO2 Engine ELG sensor for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their applicability in a WWTP environment. The measurements of GHG fluxes were performed by measuring the temporal change of GHG concentrations in the headspace of floating flux chambers placed in treatment tanks. The two gas sensors were tested either via tests in lab or via field measurements. The flux chamber method made it possible to estimate the fluxes at three out of four targeted tanks. The total daily GHG flux estimations (mmol m-2 d-1 ) in the SHARON were 6900 CO2, 320 methane (CH4) and 35 N2O. The estimations (mmol m-2 d-1) in the Biological treatment were 22 000 CO2, 120 CH4 and 23 N2O for 75% of the time. The estimations (mmol m-2 d-1) in the Chemical treatment were 110 CO2, 0.073 CH4 and 0.60 N2O. The largest N2O emissions were found to occur during nitrification processes in the SHARON. The fluxes in the SHARON were also the largest compared to those in the Biological treatment and the Chemical treatment, except for the CO2 flux that was larger in the Biological treatment. The CO2 sensor could be used during measurements over shorter time periods were CO2 levels did not exceed 10 000 ppm. Further tests on the SiC-FET sensor are needed to evaluate the sensor for measurements of N2O.

碩士
國立中央大學
環境工程研究所在職專班
102
In recent year, the collected amounts of the general household solid wastes decreased significantly, thus the large municipal solid waste incinerators (MSWI) in Taiwan have headroom capacity to handle the general industrial solid waste. Consequently, due to the great changes in nature and composition of the solid wastes into MSWI, the emission concentration of acid gas pollutants with high fluctuating conditions was occurred frequently. In order to realize the stability of the facility for controlling the acid gas pollutants, a full scale of MSWI in northern Taiwan, using semi-dry scrubbers to remove acid pollutants in the flue gas, was employed in this study. The effects of the operating variables, include type of chemicals, reaction temperature and stoichiometric ratio of chemical, on the removal efficiency of acid gas pollutants were investigated. Scenario simulation experiments were also carried out to understand the strategies for maintaining stability of the flue gas control system. The results shown that when the flue gas at the temperature of 150 ℃ and using hydrate lime and sodium hydroxide as chemical agent at the stoichiometric ratio of excess dosing was 2.4 and 1.6, respectively, the HCl acid gas removal efficiency were both of over 96% and the SOx removal efficiency was above 86% and 78%, respectively. However, the increase of temperature of the flue gas, the HCI and SOx acid gas removal efficiency was gradually decreased. It also found that when the temperature of the flue gas increased to 210 ℃, only bicarbonate sodium at the stoichiometric chemical dosing ratio of 1.6, the HCl and SOx acid gas removal efficiency could be maintained above 96% and 85%, respectively. In addition, the strategies for maintaining stability of the acid gas control system, the result of this study indicated that adding an extra cooling water spray system to control the temperature of flue gas approximately between 140 ~ 150 ℃ if at the necessary. So that the best acid gas removal efficiency could be obtained at the lowest stoichiometric dosing ratio of hydrate lime. Establish a new dry hydrated lime spray system for supplying the extra hydrate lime to enhance the removal efficiency of acid gases, when the exhaust gas emission concentration of acid gases suddenly changes. Besides, use crane to blend all kinds of solid wastes in the refuse bunker in order to make the nature of the feed into the waste incinerator maintaining at a uniform steady state at all operation time.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-174). Also available via the World Wide Web.

碩士
國立中央大學
環境工程研究所
82
Ceramic tile is one of the major materials used widely in the building construction. The production and marketing of ceramic tiles are closely related with the construction industry. Along with the economy booming in Taiwan, the demand for the production of ceramic tile is increased year by year. The average yearly growth rate of the production is about 15% from the year of 1983 to 1993. Unfortunately, the production of ceramic tile causes pollution and worsens the air quality. To promote the production without contaminating the environment, the factories should install control equipments and maintain good operation and housekeeping. A pilot plant of mobile-bed scrubbing tower with 3 kinds of openings in the supporting tray is established in this study to investigate its performance on treating the waste gas emitted from spray dryer of a ceramic tile plant. An semi- empirical equation states the minimum fluidized gas velocity (MFV ) isproposed based on the dimension analysis and the experimental data in this work as the following : Ugmf = 46.5*(f*D/d)^0.665*Ul^-0.08. The effects of the operation conditions of the scrubbering tower on particle penetration were evaluated in terms of MFV, liquid to gas flow ratio, and pressure loss. Optimal conditions for different openings in the supporting tray of the tower are listed. In most runs, the effluent after mobile-bed treatment could reach the current emission standard (200mg/Nm), some could even be better than 1995 standard (100mg/Nm). From the results of cost- effective analysis on the installation cost, operating cost, raw material recovery, waste-water treatment, and the cost of unit waste removal, the choice of 43.3% opening in the supporting tray of the tower is the best one. It is estimated that the increase of the cost by installing the mobile-bed scrubber as the pollution control equipment in the ceramic tile plant is 0.56 NT dollar per squared meter of ceramic tile produced.

In India, the expansion of industries and two-fold increase in motor vehicles over the last decade are posing a serious environmental crisis in the form of urban air pollution. Common pollutants include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles. Air pollution results from a variety of sources. The natural sources include volcanoes, forest fire, scattering soil, biological decay, lightning strikes, dust storms etc. and man-made sources include thermal power plants, vehicular exhausts, incinerators and various other industrial emissions. More than 60% of the air pollution is contributed by these man-made sources. Amongst the gaseous pollutants, the major concern and a challenging task is to control oxides of nitrogen, commonly referred to as NOx. In case of diesel engines, despite the modification in engine design and improvement in after treatment technologies, large amount of NOx continues is get emitted and attempts to develop new catalyst to reduce NOx have so far been less successful. Further, with the emission standards becoming more stringent, estimates are that NOx and particulate matter emission must be reduced by as much as 90%. In this context, the emergence of electrical discharge plasma technique in combination with the few existing technologies is providing to be economically viable and efficient technology. In this thesis emphasis has been laid on the discharge based non-thermal plasma for NOx removal. NOx from simulated gas mixture and actual diesel engine exhaust has been treated. The thesis mainly addresses the following issues. . • Performance evaluation of pipe-cylinder and wire-cylinder reactor for NOx removal . • Study of effect of plasma assisted adsorbent reactor on NOx removal . • Study of effect of adsorption and plasma based desorption using different adsorbent material and electrode configuration The first chapter provides introduction about the air pollutants and the existing NOx control technologies, a brief history of electric discharge plasma, a detailed literature survey and scope of the work. A detailed experimental setup consisting of voltage sources, gas system (simulated flue gas and diesel exhaust), gas analyzers, adsorbent materials are discussed in the second chapter. In the third chapter, NOx is treated by three different methods and are described in separate parts. In first part we have done a comparative study of NO/NOx removal using two different types of dielectric barrier discharge electrodes: a) wire-cylinder reactor, b) pipe-cylinder reactor. Investigations were first carried out with synthetic gases to obtain the baseline information on the NO/NOx removal with respect to the two geometries studied. Further, experiments were carried out with raw diesel exhaust under loaded condition. A high NOx removal efficiency 90% was observed for pipe-cylinder reactor when compared to that with wire-cylinder reactor, where it was 53.4%. In second part an analysis has been made on discharge plasma coupled with an adsorbent system. The cascaded plasma-adsorbent system may be perceived as a better alternative for the existing adsorbent based abatement system in the industry. During this study the exhaust is sourced from a diesel generator set. It was observed that better NO removal in a plasma reactor can be made possible by achieving higher average fields and subsequent NO2 removal can be improved using an adsorbent system connected in cascade with the plasma system. This part describes the various findings pertaining to these comparative analyses. The third and last part of chapter 3 consists of gas desorption from an adsorbent by non-thermal plasma, which is an alternative to conventional thermal desorption, has been studied in relation to diesel engine exhaust. In this process saturated adsorbent material is regenerated using high energetic electrons and excited molecules produced by non thermal plasma. The last Chapter lists out the major inferences drawn from this study.

碩士
國立中央大學
光機電工程研究所
103
Ships, bridges, pressure vessels, industrial machinery, automobile, rolling stock and many other fields are all produced by welding technology. The common problem in these fields is associated with welding process. The maximum hardness of the heat affected zone (HAZ) and the cold cracking susceptibility of welds are results in Weldability of steel. It would generate harder HAZ, cold crack susceptibility and residual stress in weldment, when steel is welded non uniform heating and cooling in weld metal and in base metal. To slow the heating and cooling rate of the base metal and weld heat affected zone is the best way to minimize difficulties above. However there are many methods to solve it and one of them is preheating and post weld heat treatment (PWHT). Preheating and PWHT have been widely employed in welding operation for preventing cold cracking and the maximum hardness in HAZ. The weldments with double V groove type were butt-welded by multiple passes as shown in Fig. 2. An automated Gas shielded Flux-Cored Arc Welding (FCAW-G) machine was used, with a welding wire of diameter 1.2 mm and CO2 shielding gas at 20 Lmin-1 flow rate, conforming to the American Welding Society standards AWS A5.20. In this study, it investigate the effects of preheating and PWHT on the microstructure, mechanical properties of JIS G3101 SS400 structural steel and AISI 1045 midium carbon steel dissimilar joints. It would eliminate the maximum hardness in the S45C HAZ and increase the toughness of the weldment. The welding process would be standardized which base on the obtained optimization parameters, in order to ensuring the welding quality from different workers that could reach the demands of industry.